Grans easy homemade biscuits. Homemade bread and biscuits are my favorite thing in the whole world. That's right, you are only going to need heavy cream and self-raising flour to make these delicious, flakey biscuits. The result is these wonderful, tasty biscuits that come out great as long as I follow these specific guidelines that Granny told me. Make sure your shortening and buttermilk are very cold. Add milk and mix with fork or hands into a light dough.
Turn dough onto a floured board and knead a couple of times. Using a biscuit cutter, cut dough into biscuits and place in pan. Pour melted shortening/butter over each biscuit. You can have Grans easy homemade biscuits using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Grans easy homemade biscuits
- Prepare 5 cup of self rising flour (adjust to your content).
- Prepare of vegetable oil (enough too fill well in flour).
- You need of milk (enough to make dough)(i just cover top of flour and adjust as needed).
When cutting out the biscuits, try to leave as little space between them as possible. If there is extra dough, form it into one last biscuit. How to Make Ahead Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. Southern buttermilk biscuits are best served warm right out of the oven slathered in butter.
Grans easy homemade biscuits instructions
- PREHEAT OVEN 400*F.
- Spray 9X13 pan with cooking spray (I use a spray with flour).
- Put flour in a bowl make a well for oil to go in.
- Fill well with oil.
- Pour enough milk over flour stir to make a biscuit dough.
- Take spoonfulls of dough and hand make dough balls.
- Place in pan spray tops of dough with cooking spray (i use butter flavored spray).
- Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
To make ahead, prepare and cut out biscuits according to recipe instructions. Place on a lined baking sheet in the freezer. Add flour, baking powder, salt and sugar to bowl mix together. Cut in shortening or butter to resemble coarse crumbs. Making biscuits from scratch is such a worthwhile endeavor, and it doesn't need to be challenging.